Table 3. Robustness test: regressions of attitudes toward reserved forest (dependent variable) against attitudes toward Karnataka Forest Department, knowledge about Forest Rights Act, and participation in forest management groups (N = 247) with clustering by land tenure and management regimes. Asterisks denote level of significance * at 10%; ** at 5%; *** at 1%.
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Model |
Knowledge about Forest Rights Act
[H1] |
Attitudes toward Karnataka Forest
Department [H2] |
Participation in Forest Management
Groups [H3] |
Changes made to core model with
clustering (in Table 2) |
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0 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
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Core Model with
clustering |
0.063** |
-0.125*** |
-0.121 |
-0.129** |
-0.053 |
-0.062*** |
No changes |
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[1] |
0.045** |
-0.118*** |
-0.113 |
-0.125** |
-0.048 |
-0.054*** |
Knowledge about Forest Rights Act score
range from 0 to 7 (0 = lack of knowledge, 1-7 = knowledge about 1 up to 7
rights) |
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[2] |
0.053 |
-0.127*** |
-0.126 |
-0.122** |
-0.053 |
-0.058*** |
Knowledge about Forest Rights Act score
range from 0 to 1 ((0 = lack of knowledge, 1 = knowledge about one and more
rights) |
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[3] |
0.062** |
0.02** |
-0.057** |
Attitudes toward Karnataka Forest
Department score range from 0 to 4 (0 = not happy at all, 1 = not very happy,
2 = indifferent, 3 = a little happy, 4 = very happy) |
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[4] |
0.064** |
0.064*** |
-0.063** |
Attitudes toward Karnataka Forest
Department score range from 0 to 1 (0 = not happy at all,
1 = otherwise) |
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[5] |
0.063* |
-0.121*** |
-0.124 |
-0.126** |
-0.051 |
-0.028*** |
Participation in Forest Management
Groups score counting number of groups in which informant participates |
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[6] |
0.064* |
-0.12*** |
-0.12 |
-0.115** |
-0.058 |
-0.061*** |
Added length of
residence |
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[7] |
0.083*** |
-0.174*** |
-0.182** |
-0.22*** |
-0.089* |
-0.082*** |
Included only household-level control
variables |
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[8] |
0.059* |
-0.14*** |
-0.099 |
-0.141** |
-0.064 |
-0.05*** |
Included only individual-level control
variables |
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[9] |
0.068** |
-0.133*** |
-0.125 |
-0.139** |
-0.055 |
-0.067*** |
Excluded average income and ownership
of durables |
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[10] |
0.057 |
-0.138*** |
-0.116 |
-0.129** |
-0.06 |
-0.04*** |
Excluded access to land and livestock
ownership |
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[11] |
0.064* |
-0.131*** |
-0.125 |
-0.137*** |
-0.059 |
-0.063*** |
Excluded tribal origin |
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